I was bored yesterday, so I grabbed the ZDoom source and put together something that I'd always been curious about.
http://users.zoominternet.net/~tain/ManDoom/
Feeling like playing Doom again? Maybe you just bought the id pack during the Steam sale? Give it a shot with permadeath!
Best of luck to the Nightmare players.
Permadeath?
You can only save when quitting, and loading removes your save. No save/load anywhere or rolling back at all. Start over when you die.
Damn, homie.
awesome
<3 doom
Doom the Wanderer?
Gotta call a Doom random level generator and then run zdoom for that, imo
I'm not sure about permadeath but I definitely like playing each Doom level starting with the default weapons. It's funny how each level is obviously designed around this but the quicksaves and quickloads meant that no one cared.
http://users.zoominternet.net/~tain/ManDoom/
1.14 out!
Four new difficulty levels have been added; Hurt Me Plenty with respawning monsters, Ultra-Violence with respawning monsters, Berserker mode (no ammo pickups and very, very few weapons, but many more health-giving Berserk pickups), and glorious Stupid mode.
OBLIGE, a random level generator, is pretty fun to mess with in combination with this. Unfortunately, the way ZDOOM is structured makes me think that I'll never be able to make the ideal setup of having a second New Game option in-engine that would build a random set of levels. Oh well!
I can't hang with this, just because I know if the system/game crashes at any point I'm fucked.
it is the second most dangerous game
Twice the Doom. Twice the Dorky.
What is Stupid mode?
it's stupid
edit: I could never play every level with the default weapons. I like to kill things and that is just straight impossible without some super human skill. Doom on UV with carrying over weapons is easy though.
imps throwin' rockets, shotgun guys universally replacing normal dudes, shit like that.
I might have a second executable that generates and uses a random set of levels every time you start it up (assuming you have no save), now that I've messed with it a bit. Unfortunately, I still can't really figure out how to get an external wad loaded after startup (and requests for this functionality made in the past by others to the ZDoom developers have been met with solidly negative responses), but this should still be fun to mess with.
I'd like to try this out, but every time I've tried to play any of the updated Doom engines, I always end up disappointed because the control settings won't let me bind things the way I want to, like it won't let me bind some stuff to my extra mouse buttons, for example.
Tain, since you seem to be the resident expert, can you point us to the better custom WADs out there? I'd like to play that again, and while I played a ton of them long ago, it's been a while.
1.15 is up with a random episode generation mode!
If you start it up with the "-random" command line switch (or double click the included batch), it will generate and use a random episode for you to play. It'll make a new episode every time you start it up with -random and DON'T have a random-level savegame for that particular version of Doom, so you can retry a given randomized episode as many times as you want provided you don't quit the game.
There was a great doomworld article pointing out a ton of custom WADs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
http://www.doomworld.com/10years/bestwads/1994.php
...I really haven't tried that many, though. I always heard Memento Mori was good.
ZDoom (and this) support all five of my mouse buttons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kedawa
The problem wasn't that it didn't support the buttons, it was that it would only let me map certain things to them. I think it was ZDoom I was using, and I tried to map everything except move and jump to the mouse, and it just wouldn't let me.
EDIT: it was chocolate doom, not Zdoom. I'll have to give that one a try.
I am going to give this a shot since I am on an old FPS kick (other people can have their flickery NES games ;p) Have you tried Scoredoom?
I haven't. Some DoomWorld forum dudes were suggesting I check it out and consider combining ManDoom and ScoreDoom, but I haven't looked into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
b-b-b-bump
The upcoming update to Brutal Doom reminded me that I'd been meaning to give ManDoom a much-needed update to the latest ZDoom. So, I did. ManDoom is now a modified version of ZDoom 2.7.1, so stuff like Brutal Doom and RE Mercenaries are now compatible.
http://users.zoominternet.net/~tain/ManDoom/